Special parenting and the combined skills model

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 346-355

  Young, Sadie ^a   Hawkins, Tim ^b  

^a Honeylands Children's Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b Mount Gould Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combined; Disabilities; Evaluation; Flexible; Intellectual; Learning; Model; Parenting; Special

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751030277     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2006.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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